12.30.08
Aryan invasion debates
I was distracted from posting tonight to read an online book, UPDATE ON THE
ARYAN INVASION DEBATE, from a link at The Gurdjieff Con.
I am always game for this debate (this one tries to critique the defenses of the AIT) but I find at each pursuit of the research that the evidence is so far inconclusive.
Often the study of the eonic effect suggests an answer, but in this case it does not, although the existence of Indo-European languages in India in the period before the emergence of Sumer/Egypt ca. -3000 would demand some careful thought. But it is doubtful if the basic eonic model, quite robust, would change.
However, there is something missing in our understanding of this language group (perhaps the same for all language groups). The linguistic history of the language group behind Greek, with the emergence of viz. the Greek epic suggests something occurred that was very deep, somewhere, somewhen, and this is lost to us. Perhaps it all goes back to the period of the so-called Great Explosion! (Check out this link: http://www.continuitas.com/intro.html)
In general the history of India is still a minefield of potential confusions. Only with the period of the Indian Axial Age does the evidence become reliable, and it fits the eonic model perfectly from that point.
The rest, better to not speculate.
James said,
December 30, 2008 at 10:18 pm
“In general the history of India is still a minefield of potential confusions.”
This is a good article on the political and social agendas of both sides:
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/aid/aryanpolitics.html
James said,
January 5, 2009 at 2:09 am
More mysteries of the Indo-European cultural & ethnic(?) matrix:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817:
Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong. Our ancestors were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic stock of these islands